Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike

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[PDF file]: […] the armed services in these situations of ‘urgent national importance’ as ‘providing either support to the management and sustainability of civil power operations, or the use of MOD facilities in connection with a civil power’s operation’. One of the main ‘civil power operations’ discussed is ‘Support to Police Public Order Operations’. The document admits […]

Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike

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[…] the armed services in these situations of ‘urgent national importance’ as ‘providing either support to the management and sustainability of civil power operations, or the use of MOD facilities in connection with a civil power’s operation’. One of the main ‘civil power operations’ discussed is ‘Support to Police Public Order Operations’. The document admits […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] when it comes to doing hatchet jobs on people who are a threat to the powers-that-be. He spent years distorting what Colin Wallace was saying, rehashing the MOD line on him, and ignoring all the evidence – lots of it from me – which showed that what the MOD had been saying was disinformation.81 […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* What could possibly go wrong? While it’s true that there is still no absolute proof that the covid outbreak began at the Wuhan lab, can it just be a weird coincidence that the […]

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[PDF file]: […] The author has been briefed by someone – I would guess not a million miles from outgoing Defence Secretary Wallace – knowledgeable about the bizarre goings-on at MOD procurement and gives a couple of barely believable examples. 32 8 think ‘Well, maybe I won’t put through that price rise’, or workers, when they’re a […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

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[PDF file]: […] All that was done trying to keep the lid on the story of how a still largely unidentified alliance of arms companies, the military, bits of the MoD and the intelligence services murdered a trail of people and wrecked several British companies. Appendix Nick Must commented: A search for ‘Project Babylon’ via the CIA […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Gladio in the movies Below, under subhead Briefly, the question of the portrayal of the Gladio network in film is briefly touched on. In response to that, Simon Matthews sent this. A 1979 […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* The miners’ strike Interesting piece by ex New York Times reporter Joe Lauria at Consortiumnews on the 40th anniversary commemoration of the miners’ strike.1 But there are two serious omissions in it. Lauria […]

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[…] Chatham House et al – of the wilfully and/or career-mindedly naive pro-American writing on the subject at present. 41 She listed as among those briefed by the MOD. See near the bottom of the list at . me, verbatim, that elections cannot be allowed to change established economic policy. In other words, that democracy […]

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